City staff are working night and day to ensure that Monday night’s Premier League home game with Blackburn (8pm) goes ahead as scheduled.

A spate of postponements and no let up in the weather’s icy grip are threatening to play havoc with the football calendar but the Club is doing everything in its power to prevent the Rovers fixture going the same way as the Carling Cup semi-final did at the height of the midweek snow storms.

Snow ploughs are currently working on clearing a foot of snow from the north car parks, Commonwealth Way, and Car Park Seven where the away coaches will be situated.

The club is in constant contact with the council’s gritting team to ensure that the surrounding roads and footpaths are part of their plans, and is also in the process of contacting all accredited externally operated car parks to check on action plans and remind them of their obligation to ensure the safe operation of their sites on match day.

Although temperatures are set to drop to -8 and -9 over the next two nights there is only likely to be the odd snow shower around the ground between now and Monday evening. The undersoil heating will be left on and the pitch is currently clear of snow and in a playable condition.

The pitch perimeter has also been cleared and the stadium infrastructure is currently operating as normal.

The concourse roadway within SportCity has been gritted and is in use. Car Parks 6a and 6b and Citystore have been cleared of snow and are in use. The outer concourse has been cleared of snow and is in use. Joe Mercer Way and SportCity Way have been cleared of snow and are in use. The Citystore and box office are open for business as normal.

However, the East car park is being used to store snow that has been cleared from other areas of the site and will remain out of use.  This car park will NOT be in use for the Blackburn Rovers game.

Postponement risk protocol procedures are in place and will be implemented if necessary.

However, MCFC have grit spreading equipment and a supply of grit on standby for Monday to ensure that all public areas of the site freshly covered in advance of the game.

Fans are reminded that tickets are on sale for the game starting at £24 for adults and £10 for under 16s. Tickets are available by telephone on 0870 062 1894 option 1* or to personal callers at the Box Office. Tickets are on general sale and to Accesscard holders. There is a £2.00 booking fee per ticket on all telephone bookings.

Wide ranging hospitality is also available. Check out the top deals at http://hospitality.mcfc.co.uk/

In addition we are handing our supporters some New Year cheer in the form of hefty discounts. There are fantastic money saving offers at the Citycentre store at CoMs surrounding the match.

From Saturday morning until Monday evening Seasoncard holders with get 20% off purchases, while those with Accesscard, Citycard and Blackburn match tickets will get 10%.

All offers are mutually exclusive and cannot be used in conjunction with one another. This special offer is available within the store only and doesn’t include sale items.